Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.
Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
I like sex to be intense. I also like sex to be in tents.
I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...
When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life...
During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
All that really matters is to feel alive, if only for a single moment – to feel in Intense Sensation that our existence is not an endless repetition of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.
